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Quote from: 108shivad on April 24, 2017, 11:15:03 PM

ah-hah!
so u r "newt343" eh? i see it on the beach down there. thnx. but i only see 1. is the other downtown (just south of Presidio)? {what is a 'fidi gem'}. lol. nice work. but these bitcoin questons r killing me. thanks. i'll give 'em 'nother try. Kiss

GBY
shivad

Yes, you must have found it. One is at Lincoln and has directions to the other downtown. Congrats!

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ah-hah!
so u r "newt343" eh? i see it on the beach down there. thnx. but i only see 1. is the other downtown (just south of Presidio)? {what is a 'fidi gem'}. lol. nice work. but these bitcoin questons r killing me. thanks. i'll give 'em 'nother try. Kiss

GBY
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Quote from: 108shivad on April 24, 2017, 07:21:38 PM

Hey guys,

new to geo-cacheing for bitcoin. visiting a few places in CA (yep, as the x-governor would say Cal-leaf-forn-ya) where i can find the coins relativeyl easy, but the questions don't seem related to the location. i.e. i get into one residential street, pure houses, and the question is: "what company would you buy from here?". Huh

tried everything, street names, numbers, couldn't pick up the coins. same for a bunch of others. Huh

any suggestions?

thanks
shivad

I'm the OP of this thread (changed my nick years ago). Back when I started this thread I put some btc in a geocache in San Francisco's Lincoln Park. They were never recovered. I'll give you a big hint to finding them. Standing at the geocache you can see the golf course clubhouse, the Legion of Honor and the Golden Gate Bridge. As far as I can tell it's the only geocache in the park where you can see all three from one spot.

Good luck

BTW: I put them there when btc wasn't worth as much. There are two whole coins in that cache.

108shivad

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Hey guys,

new to geo-cacheing for bitcoin. visiting a few places in CA (yep, as the x-governor would say Cal-leaf-forn-ya) where i can find the coins relativeyl easy, but the questions don't seem related to the location. i.e. i get into one residential street, pure houses, and the question is: "what company would you buy from here?". Huh

tried everything, street names, numbers, couldn't pick up the coins. same for a bunch of others. Huh

any suggestions?

thanks
shivad

JustJake

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I made a post in the Project Development section of this forum. I am not doing an open Alpha of my Bitcoin geocaching game. Its is called BitScavenger and can be found at http://bitscavenger.net.

Here is the post from the other forum:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitscavengernet-a-bitcoin-geocaching-game-182212

I have been in crunch mode trying to work out all the bugs that I completely forgot that it would be a good idea to have some geocaches set up before announcing the game. I will try to get some set up in my home town of Austin TX so you can see that the app works. There is so much I want to do with this, but before I get ahead of myself, please give me feedback on how well the core concept works.

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Quote from: redbeans2012 on December 10, 2012, 09:07:05 PM

Here is my idea for Geocaching / treasure hunt. I've always wanted to do it but just don't have time, especially since I dove into Solavei 100%.

I wanted bury a thumb drive somewhere with the wallet on it.

Then have a website that gave clues ect. Rent out advertising space on the website... take some of that advertising $$ and keep adding to the amount that is on the thumb drive (or any other medium to store btc's on). Even if its at the bottom of a lake somewhere. If the amount gets high enough, people will be putting on scuba suits.

Someone do this. (not sure if this was mentioned in the thread, didn't read it all)

Mike

cool idea. could be done with a paper wallet, too.

also rising bitcoin price could add motivation.

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Here is my idea for Geocaching / treasure hunt. I've always wanted to do it but just don't have time, especially since I dove into Solavei 100%.

I wanted bury a thumb drive somewhere with the wallet on it.

Then have a website that gave clues ect. Rent out advertising space on the website... take some of that advertising $$ and keep adding to the amount that is on the thumb drive (or any other medium to store btc's on). Even if its at the bottom of a lake somewhere. If the amount gets high enough, people will be putting on scuba suits.

Someone do this. (not sure if this was mentioned in the thread, didn't read it all)

Mike

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Quote from: Tuxavant on April 16, 2012, 12:55:19 PM

Perhaps it was deleted under this TOS violation? Grin

Source: http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?app=forums&module=extras§ion=boardrules

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9. Commerciality and postings with a larger agenda: It is Groundspeak's desire to maintain forums for the purpose of promoting the activity of geocaching and location-based outdoor play. We intend to limit forum discussions that promote commercial, social, political or charitable agendas as well as those which do not reasonably relate to the activity of geocaching and location-based outdoor play.

Threads or posts perceived to have been made with the intent of promoting any of the above agendas will not be permitted. Please note that our Volunteer Forum Moderators are authorized to exercise their discretion in providing some reasonable latitude for forum discussion postings relating to local events and issues in local discussion forums. Notwithstanding the above, Groundspeak reserves the right to include or permit the inclusion of limited commercial content in this forum, at its sole discretion.

Sounds to me like a new geocaching enterprise may be in order. One based on Bitcoin and advertisers, thus truly making it worthwhile for the masses to get involved.

Can't fiat be considered a political concern? If so, then hiding a penny would violate their TOS. You can't get a more larger agenda then that of money, can you?

~Bruno K~

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Quote from: kjlimo on December 10, 2012, 07:30:24 AM

Quote from: phelix on December 08, 2012, 12:37:35 PM

print paper wallet with cool design, fill with small bitcoin amount, deposit like any other geocacheing treasure.

https://www.bitaddress.org

I've hidden about 50 fliers with two instawallet addresses on two versions of the fliers...

No one has claimed thed bitcoins yet.... haha

How user friendly is the paper wallet?

I personnaly have not used one yet, but will look into it when I am on a computer (on the bus right now)

If anyone is near Ohio, USA, feel free to find some of Team_Little_Bear's caches & you'll be rewarded with some bitcoin.

nice. the thing about these bills is they really look good. you can swipe them with the gox app so if you know your tools it is very user friendly. probably it would be a good idea to add this info (maybe on the back side).

I have not yet found a way to check the balance other than copy past from qr code scanner app to browser & blockexplorer.

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Quote from: phelix on December 08, 2012, 12:37:35 PM

print paper wallet with cool design, fill with small bitcoin amount, deposit like any other geocacheing treasure.

https://www.bitaddress.org

I've hidden about 50 fliers with two instawallet addresses on two versions of the fliers...

No one has claimed thed bitcoins yet.... haha

How user friendly is the paper wallet?

I personnaly have not used one yet, but will look into it when I am on a computer (on the bus right now)

If anyone is near Ohio, USA, feel free to find some of Team_Little_Bear's caches & you'll be rewarded with some bitcoin.

phelix

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print paper wallet with cool design, fill with small bitcoin amount, deposit like any other geocacheing treasure.

https://www.bitaddress.org

Tuxavant

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Perhaps it was deleted under this TOS violation? Grin

Source: http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?app=forums&module=extras§ion=boardrules

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9. Commerciality and postings with a larger agenda: It is Groundspeak's desire to maintain forums for the purpose of promoting the activity of geocaching and location-based outdoor play. We intend to limit forum discussions that promote commercial, social, political or charitable agendas as well as those which do not reasonably relate to the activity of geocaching and location-based outdoor play.

Threads or posts perceived to have been made with the intent of promoting any of the above agendas will not be permitted. Please note that our Volunteer Forum Moderators are authorized to exercise their discretion in providing some reasonable latitude for forum discussion postings relating to local events and issues in local discussion forums. Notwithstanding the above, Groundspeak reserves the right to include or permit the inclusion of limited commercial content in this forum, at its sole discretion.

Tuxavant

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It was there. It got deleted. It seems Groundspeak doesn't like Bitcoins?

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Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on April 16, 2012, 08:40:41 AM

Quote from: kjlimo on April 16, 2012, 01:06:11 AM

Please go take a look at my post on geocaching.com related to bitcoins:

http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=294073

I hope to start hiding bitcoins in geocaches by next month.

Ciao!

Watching.

Looks like it got deleted... I guess I must have posted in the wrong place. Or they didn't like the fact that my account has zero caches so far...

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Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on March 25, 2012, 11:56:46 AM

Idea: Take a kid geocaching, and any bitcoins discovered goes to them.

Kid: I'm bored!
Dad: What do you want to do?
Kid: I don't know.
Dad: You want to go treasure hunting?
Kid: YEA! How? Where?
Dad: By geocaching for bitcoins. Ready to go?
Kid: WHAT? Huh

Dad: Yeah, I dont really know what that means either. Huh

Kid: Why did you say it then?
Dad: I dont know.
Kid: You are weird.
Dad: U are my son. Angry

Kid: Yeah, maybe. Angry

Dad: We'll see, son. We'll see.

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Quote from: kjlimo on April 16, 2012, 01:06:11 AM

Please go take a look at my post on geocaching.com related to bitcoins:

http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=294073

I hope to start hiding bitcoins in geocaches by next month.

Ciao!

Watching.

kjlimo

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Please go take a look at my post on geocaching.com related to bitcoins:

http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=294073

I hope to start hiding bitcoins in geocaches by next month.

Ciao!

Phinnaeus Gage

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Idea: Take a kid geocaching, and any bitcoins discovered goes to them.

Source: http://www.truepaganwarrior.com/2007/06/geocaching-for-fun-and-profit.html

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The finding of the cache, seeing what's inside, and trading some of those items for ones we brought was neat. What made it a different kind of walk in the woods for me, though, was the kids. Holding the hand of a three-year-old on a somewhat rocky trail makes you look at the terrain in a very different way. She is completely trusting in your ability to keep her safe from harm as she improves her locomotive skills. It was a new way to experience the world through a child's eyes.

Kid: I'm bored!
Dad: What do you want to do?
Kid: I don't know.
Dad: You want to go treasure hunting?
Kid: YEA! How? Where?
Dad: By geocaching for bitcoins. Ready to go?
Kid: I bet I find more than you?
Dad: We'll see, son. We'll see.

I found my first bitcoin!

Phinnaeus Gage

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Surely, it cant' be this simple! http://www.geocaching.com/brandedpromotions/default.aspx

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Photo Contests

Geocachers are an incredibly creative — and a somewhat competitive — bunch. Marry a branded Trackable with a Photo Contest, and geocachers are capable of creating a wealth of valuable promotional content — content they share not only with other geocachers on Geocaching.com, but also with their extended networks on Facebook and other social networks. Examples of geocacher-created imagery from a recent Trackable Photo Contest are shown at right.

Casascius, where are you?

~Bruno~

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